Sometimes you’re in the mood for a slice of science fiction but you haven’t got the time to embark on a Red Mars or a Dune. All hail, then, the sci-fi short story, bringing you a slice of the weird, ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Once upon a time science fiction was relegated to B budget status, but since the 1950s it's shed its ...

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A few days ago, the Science Fiction Film Working Committee of the Chinese Film Association was founded during the China Golden Rooster Film Festival, signifying a solid step taken to promote Chinese ...

Estonian director Moonika Siimets' absurdist comedy "The Black Hole" has won the Grand Prix du Jury at the Les Utopiales ...

University of Tennessee provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. A colleague in the sociology department used to teach a course using a film genre from the 1940s and 1950s that presented a ...

The definition of a short film is technically anything with a runtime of 40 minutes or less, but it's generally thought that ...